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Clubs & On-line Information

Bob & Ruth’s Gluten-Free Dining & Travel Club
www.bobandruths.com
bobolevy@erols.com
410-486-0292
With membership you receive the newsletter with GF restaurant reviews and organized gluten-free travel "Getaways" opportunities.

Celiac Chicks
http://celiacchicks.typepad.com/
This website is done by two GF women who visit different restaurants in the NYC area. A fun website!

Celiac Travel.com
www.celiactravel.com
This website gives practical information and recommendations about traveling gluten-free. Also included are Gluten Free Restaurant Cards translated into 36 languages that are free for the printing. They also provide the websites of many country Celiac/Coeliac Societies.

EU Labeling Regulations
Tricia Thompson, celiac dietician, has summarized the recent EU gluten-free labeling regulations. Read article.

GF Links
www.Gflinks.com
In the “Celiac Associations” section there are website addresses for Celiac groups in other countries. These websites often have useful information for GF visitors, as well as restaurant cards in different languages.

Gluten Free City Source
glutenfreecityguide.blogspot.com
"I've created a new web site called the 'Gluten Free City Guide'. It's a custom google map with placemarks added to cities that have blogs/web sites specifically about that particular city. There are a ton of web sites out there and I've taken my best shot to add them all to the map. Please take a look and let me know if you blog or have a web site talking about being Gluten Free in a particlar city/area - I'll get it added! There are no advertisements and nothing to sell, just a useful resource to help others. Zach, 1/09

Gluten-Free Guidebook blog
http://www.glutenfreeguidebook.com/
Hilary Davidson, a write for Frommer's travel guides, shares information about traveling gluten-free world wide. Three of her blog entries give general tips about traveling GF: "Celiac Travel 101" in 9/08, "The Gluten-Free Guidebook's First Year" in 3/09, and "Planning for Gluten-Free Travel" in 6/09. There are also many blog entrys about specific destinations.

Gluten Free Passports
http://www.glutenfreepassport.com/traveling/translations.html
This website offers translations of phrases in several languages that you may need when traveling abroad. They also provide helpful tips on airline travel, foods that pack well, etc. All free!

Gluten Free Registry
www.glutenfreeregistry.com
"Our mission at the Gluten Free Registry™ is to put people and gluten-free friendly restaurants, bakeries, caterers, grocers and more together. Utilize our free, searchable database of over 5,100+ gluten-free friendly business locations to find one near you or your travel destination. Also available on your mobile phone at www.gfregistry." mobi

Gluten Free Restaurant Awareness Program (GFRAP)
www.glutenfreerestaurants.org
This program was started by the Westchester Celiac Sprue Support Group, but is now nationally administered and managed by the national support group GIG. Individually owned and operated restaurants are given materials and worked with to help them understand the GF dietary needs. The restaurants that become certified have agreed to prepare meals that they believe to be gluten-free. The majority of the restaurants are located in the northeast section of the U.S., but there are some throughout the United States. See their website for the list of restaurants and locations.

Gluten Free Travel Site
GlutenFreeTravelSite.com is dedicated to gluten-free user reviews of locations, hotels, restaurants. etc. Read more.

Inn Seekers
www.innseekers.com
This website helps you locate Bed and Breakfast establishments. Once you select an area on their website, you can choose "Gluten Free Meals" under the Filter Search.

Joy in Travel
Diane Schaefer states: "If you have Wanderlust, let this fellow celiac counselor put you at ease and on the vacation of your life." Contact her at Joy In Travel at 504-481-3196, 504-834-7101, schfrpd@aol.com

Living Gluten Free
Travel Tips
Tricia Thompson, MS, RD, writes this blog. In November '08 she did an article with travel tips by Melinda Dennis, MS, RD who has had celiac disease for 18 years. She specializes in celiac disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

Minimus.biz
www.minimus.biz
This company sells travel-sized individual packets of condiments. You must research to determine which products are GF.

SillyYaks Restaurant Guide
The Yahoo Group called SillyYaks provides GF information for over 120 chain restaurants around the U.S. It comes in a PDF format that can easily be printed and kept in a binder, or downloaded onto a pocket PC. The site also includes restaurant recommendations from certain areas around the U.S. You must register on the SillyYak Yahoo Group site in order to access the information.

Support Groups
It is often helpful to contact the local support group for your destination. A listing of support groups both in the U.S. and the world can be found on www.celiac.com. Select Site Index, then Celiac Support Groups. . ., and then the location you wish. They can often provide you with a dining card in the local language.

Travel Professionals International
www.tpiworldwide.com/sidneyclaretpi/specials.asp.
(604) 675-6975
Sidney Clare from TPI calls herself "Your Celiac Vacation Specialist". She arranges gluten free vacations that anyone may sign up for. She is located in Vancouver.

Twitter - Gluten-Free (Restaurant) Maps: "A new resource called Gluten-Free Maps caught my eye on Twitter. It's a smart site that blends Google-Map technology with user-generated suggestions. You can go there to check out what's in your neighborhood, or you can map the location of a restaurant you've dined at successfuly. If you're searching for a gluten-free meal at home or while traveling, it's another place to look." From the Gluten-Free Guidebook, 5/6


Resources for Other Countries
Asociaciones de Celíacos en el extranjero
http://personales.mundivia.es/acecan/mundo.htm
Although this website is in Spanish(?), it lists many celiac organizations' websites for different countries.

Italy - www.gfguideitaly.com
This website sells a GF Guide to New York and a GF guide to Italy.

Australia - http://www.glutenfreepages.com.au/

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